2003 11 14 FBI Hijackers Chronology

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was telephonically contacted at his

place of employment, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Department of
Public Safety. 40 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, PA,

After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Agent

and the nature of the interview,
information

] provided 'the following

He is currently employed with the

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Department of Public Safety, at the
Westmoreland County 911 Center, and has been employed at the Department
of Public Safety for the past ten years.

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001. he was on duty at _

approximately 9:58 a.irt., along with|_ _

I I . At that time, individuals employed there were watching .the

events surrounding the World Trade Center disaster on television.

At .approximately 9:58 a.m.., I I answered a call that came in
on Line 1103, which is a line at the Emergency . Center for incoming ceil
phone calls.,-

when

His attention was directed to the call answered

state, "You are what hijacked?" At that point in time,

he heard

he immediately picked up on another phone at the Center referred to as
a "spy phone" 'at which time he heard a male caller who identified
himself as ED WART,| | speaking. The

individual, who identified himself as WART,- was talking in a low-tone
voice yet in listening to him his voice was one filled with terror.

The caller advised hysterically that he was locked in the
bathroom of United Flight #93, a 757 jet with lots of passengers, which
was en route to San Francisco from Newark. He heard the caller repeat
several times to| that the aircraft was being hijacked, that he

believed the aircraft was going down, and that some sort of explosion

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had occurred aboard the aircraft. The male caller also stated that
there was white smoke somewhere on the plane.

During the conversation he heard between the male caller and
the male caller- did not indicate whether he was located in the

front or rear bathroom of the aircraft nor did he say anything about
the number of hijackers on board the flight, their race, or their sex.
The caller made no statements regarding any weapons that the
hijacker {:s ) had in their possession and made no statement regarding any
bombs other than the fact that he had heard seme sort of explosion
aboard the aircraft.

The cell phene call received from the individual, who
identified himself as ED WART, contained static but the ■ phone call

itself was constant in that he

could hear it as it transpired.

and advised the

Based on what he heard, he immediately got off of the phone

1 present at the time, .identified asf

_ of the facts and '.that the aircraft was possibly going down.

Other individuals located in the Emergency 911 Center were instructed
to notify thft FAA and the FBI, and he notif ied|

Westmoreland County 911, of what was transpiring.

He advised that at approximately the same time as the cell
phone call was received, the Westmoreland County 911 Center received a
telephone ■ call from an individual identified as
resides in Acme, PA, (Mt. Pleasant Township) .

_ who

J advised that

he had observed a large plane heading in a northeast direction and that
the plane was banking left and right. Based on whejre I ~~l advised

he was located, and the path of flight indicated by
County 911 Center was notified of such,
going down.

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and that an aircraft might be

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